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American literature

...jazz aesthetic of Ginsberg’s friend the novelist Jack Kerouac. Other Beat poets included Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, and Gary Snyder, a student of Eastern religion who, in
Turtle Island (1974), continued the American tradition of nature poetry.

discussed in biography

...In
The Back Country (1967) and
Regarding Wave (1969), the fusion of religion into everyday life reflects Snyder’s increasing interest in Eastern philosophies. Later volumes include
Turtle Island (1974), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, and
Axe Handles (1983). His alternatives to routinized city life are presented in
Earth House Hold (1969), a book of...